ROBOT PEDAGOGUE

Robot Pedagogue is a 5-part, serialized data processing and
visualization program that generates statements based on statistically
probable syntactic
and semantic
standards derived from the canon of pedagogical theory. The automated
generation of each new text begins with pseudorandom source selection
from an archive of texts; proceeds through a word
tree of probable word associations among the selected sources; and
culminates with a rendering of the newly conceived text in Library
Hand, the handwriting convention invented by Melvil Dewey
to standardize the appearance of records in a card catalog before the
ubiquity of typewriters and, eventually, computers. Each word is then
translated into its graphic equivalent in the lexicon of Maria
Montessori's grammar symbols, so that the concept's sum aesthetic and semantic quality can be
calculated. Pending evaluation, the new texts are archived and displayed
by rank.

Robot Pedagoguewas created by a team of artists, designers and programmers: